New Diplomacy: The UK and Ireland in a Changing World (NEWDIP)

爱尔兰和英国有着复杂而有争议的历史。近50年来，两国的双边关系一直植根于一个更大的欧洲政治和经济一体化项目，这对两国关系正常化做出了重大贡献。与此同时，两国政府与北爱尔兰当地政党和其他行为者合作，为解决北爱尔兰暴力冲突的商定治理和和平建设构建了一个持久框架。1998年的《耶稣受难日/贝尔法斯特协定》正是建立了这样一个框架。英国退出欧盟意味着这种双边关系在政治和经济方面都会发生重大变化。它还牵扯着北爱尔兰精心编织的宪法解决方案的线。NEWDIP项目的目标是将早期职业和知名学者以及政策实践者聚集在一起，在英国和爱尔兰踏上截然不同的国家之旅时，研究这种双边关系中最关键的外交政策、安全和防务方面。英国脱欧后，爱尔兰和英国将如何定义和推行各自的国家外交政策以及双边合作？NEWDIP项目将着眼于外交政策、安全和国防关系这三套相互关联的关系。-英国和爱尔兰如何管理和发展双边外交和防务关系？有哪些共同的/不同的安全利益，以及有哪些双边合作模式来管理这些利益？-在双边关系之外，英国退出欧盟如何改变英国和爱尔兰各自的外交、安全和防务政策？在这种新形势下，存在哪些机会和制约因素？双边合作将如何增加机会并最大限度地减少制约因素？-随着欧盟扩大和发展自己的外交、安全和国防政策，这对双边关系有何影响？此外，双边关系可能如何影响爱尔兰与欧盟伙伴国的接触，以及英国作为第三国与欧盟的双边关系？我们的研究-将积极吸引研究生、学者和从业者-旨在具有实际用途和应用。通过建立这个新的研究网络，我们将努力建立和加强专业关系，促进更广泛的政策辩论和对话，并建立一支能够设计、提出和成功执行针对上述研究问题的新研究项目的跨学科研究团队。NEWDIP将建立在坚实的基础上。伦敦政治经济学院的欧洲外交政策股(EFPU)是一个研究中心，负责研究与试图建立一个集体的欧洲外交政策相关的问题，以及最近英国退欧对外交事务的影响。UCD不列颠爱尔兰研究所(IBIS)就不断发展的英国-爱尔兰关系的各个方面进行了研究，并与学者、政界人士、公务员、非政府组织、民间社会团体和公民进行了广泛的公共政策接触。它现在正专注于英国退欧给英国和爱尔兰关系带来的挑战。这两个机构拥有特定的专门知识，将与各种利益攸关方就当代外交事务和英国-爱尔兰关系的挑战进行公开辩论。虽然网络研讨会将面向学生和面向政策制定者的公共政策活动，但我们拟议的研究将吸引爱尔兰和英国的学术界以及政策制定者参与，从而建立一个广泛的跨学科和多利益攸关方网络。NEWDIP产生的辩论将作为一种范围划分练习，首先探索并随后利用联合研究机会，包括通过地平线欧洲提供的欧盟基金。

Ireland and the UK share a complex and contested history. For nearly 50 years their bilateral relationship was embedded within a larger European project of political and economic integration which contributed substantially to a normalising of relationships. At the same time, the two governments worked together with local political parties and other actors in Northern Ireland to construct a durable framework for agreed governance and peace-building to resolve the violent conflict in Northern Ireland. The 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement created just such a framework. The UK's withdrawal from the EU entails substantial changes to that bilateral relationship in both political and economic aspects. It also pulls at the threads of the carefully woven constitutional settlement in Northern Ireland. The goal of the NEWDIP project is to bring together early career and established scholars, as well as policy practitioners, to look at the most critical foreign policy, security and defence aspects of this bilateral relationship as the UK and Ireland embark on quite different national journeys. How will Ireland and the UK define and pursue their respective national foreign policies, as well as their bilateral cooperation, post-Brexit? The NEWDIP project will look at three inter-related set of foreign policy, security and defence relationships. - How can/should the UK and Ireland manage and develop their bilateral diplomatic and defence relationship? What are the shared/distinct security interests and what modes of bilateral cooperation exist to manage these?- Outside of the bilateral relationship, how does the UK's withdrawal from the European Union change the respective foreign, security and defence policies of the UK and Ireland? What opportunities and constraints present themselves in this new situation and how might bilateral cooperation reinforce opportunities and minimise constraints? - As the European Union expands and develops its own foreign, security and defence policy profile, how does this impact the bilateral relationship? Also, how might the bilateral relationship effect Ireland's engagement with its EU partners and the UK's bilateral relationship with the European Union as a third country? Our research - which will actively engage graduate students, scholars and practitioners - is designed to be of practical use and application. Through the creation of this new research network we will endeavour to build and strengthen professional relationships, contribute to wider policy debates and conversations and to build an interdisciplinary research team which can design, propose and successfully execute novel research projects addressing the research questions above. NEWDIP will be constructed from strong foundations. The European Foreign Policy Unit (EFPU) of LSE acts as a focus for research on issues related to attempts to create a collective European foreign policy and, more recently, to the consequences of Brexit on matters of foreign affairs. The UCD Institute for British Irish Studies (IBIS) has generated research from, and public policy engagement with, an inclusive mix of academics, politicians, public servants, NGOs, civil society groups and citizens on aspects of the evolving British-Irish relationship. It is now focussing on challenges to British-Irish relations stemming from Brexit. These two institutions have a specific expertise that will sustain a public debate with a variety of stakeholders on the challenges of contemporary foreign affairs and British-Irish relations. While webinars will be addressed to students and public policy events to policy makers, our proposed research will engage the academic communities in Ireland and the UK, as well as policy-makers, thus building a broad interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholders' network. The debates generated by NEWDIP will act as a scoping exercise to first explore and then exploit joint research opportunities, including EU funds via Horizon Europe.